I totally know the feeling! When I forget my knitting, I get out the Ipod and catch the latest knitting blogs or podcasts. It's not the same, but it helps. No internet? Then you start to pray that there's a bit of knitting content in that little magazine in the seat pouch.

A yarn kiosk in every airport is a brilliant idea. You would need kits complete with pre-wound yarn, pattern & needles or crochet hooks so a knitter running for a plane can grab-and-go. Hmmm, I'm sensing a business opportunity here...

Seatac is not the greatest place to be stuck in. I live in Washington and every time I have been, it drains the life out of me. Silver lining though, they didn't used to allow knitting needles at all... hang in there!

Oh, I can see it now: an observant Homeland Security airport employee notices the bereft visage of a passenger, leans over and goes, "Pssst, say, buddy, want...YARN?" Oh, the undercover money-making possibilities! Thanks for the self portrait of "Knitter, Adrift"

Don't worry about those parents, they will get whatever the little ones have, double, and once the kids are better and full of energy. Nothing like wrangling those little stinkers when you feel like crud. At least mine didn't present as sick while we were at the airport last week, though I'm sure they were contagious. Whee.

Poor baby.... My Canadian friend has been stopped by security as a terrorist because she left her knitting notes (for a self-designed sock) on the chair, and lately was not allowed ANYTHING on board. Had to take her key off the chain and her wallet and put them in a baggie and check everything else. No book. No knitting. Nothing.

I'm so very sorry that you are going through that.. and yep the parents (including me) will get double, HOWEVER, I would certainly be making sure that my rugrats where not coughing/sneezing/weezing on anyone else.. that's just not right! REALLY sorry about the yarn, nothing will put me over the edge like not having the choice to knit when I need to!

I feel your pain! I once had to spend the entire day at SeaTac airport with no knitting because I foolishly packed all my knitting in my checked bag because "it's only an hour flight"...from which I was bumped and then waited 10 hours for the next one! I will never do that again.

Oh oh oh! That's so sad! Because the travel knitting is the silver lining in the travel, that's for sure. I wonder if an airport LYS would do any good business? I could see some crazed cell-phone-a-thon salesperson just chilling with a garter stitch scarf...and wouldn't that be much better than hearing him call every person he knows just because he is bored and his flight is delayed? Instead of "Hey, it's me. Jim. What's up? Yeah, just stuck at the airport..." it would be: "Hey, Nana. It's Jim. Can you remind me how to do a provisional caston? Thanks, Nana--you're the best."

I've really wanted to set up a tiny yarn shop in an airport. If you did it like a kiosk, then one side could be patterns (specific to the types of yarn you carry) and the other side could carry something like Cascade 220, an attractive fingering or dk weight yarn, and a lace weight. Needles in a drawer.

It wouldn't be hard to set up, but I'm not sure it is affordable for any of the businesses to be in the airport, much less a yarn shop.

You have described my worst nightmare - a long flight with no knitting. Eek! An airport yarn kiosk would be unlikely to survive financially but we fiber folk should band together and form a Knitters' Rescue Network for unfortunate souls who find themselves in your predicament...

You're just stuck in the wrong airport...The airports at Keflavik, Iceland and Vagar on the Faroe Islands both carry lots of local yarn! And the brewery in the Faroes has a gorgeous ram as its logo. Great country!

I have forgotten my toothbrush, my hairbrush, my curling iron, my nightgown, even a my drivers license once, but so far I have NEVER forgotten my knitting, at least not yet. I always pack that first, the night before. LOVE LOVE LOVE the idea of yarn stores at airports!

I1ve been known to turn back from the door if I forgot to put knitting in my bag, even if I "only" go to work, which is only two metrostops away... But what if it would get stuck between two station??? What if there is a fire alarm at work? If I would myself stranded in an airport withouth knitting??? Yeas I would pay much more to keep my sanity

I so agree with the yarn/needles as concessionary. I scoured a book store once hoping to find a learn to knit book that included yarn and needles. Just something to hold in my hands and knit with. Please!

Hey all you knitters stuck in airports without your knitting, check out Knit Outta the Box (www.knitouttathebox.com) - the knitting kits for the desperate knitter. I created them after I was stuck in the airport without my knitting. I've got them in hospital and gift shops across the country, but haven't convinced the airports yet that these would sell. I will persevere and hopefully you will see them in an airport near you, in the not so distant future.

Franklin, next time text me (Janice has my number). I will be your fallback girl, and I could've brought you more than 5's and 220's, I have a couple of bags of Rabbitworks here, and I'm about 35 min from the airport

Thought of you Franklin on a recent flight from Seattle to Chicago - I was surrounded by constantly giggling rambunctious teenagers en route to London. I'm sure you could have thought of some choice comments.

Oh, I SO feel your pain. On a trip to Italy last fall I had a 12-hour layover in Atlanta and at the crack of dawn when I was checking over my backpack for the last time I decided my yarn and needles added too much weight(!). I am not a morning person and was obviously delusional. I was miserable not just in the airport but most of the way through the two-week trip (the yarn shop in Florence that my husband found via his iPhone had gone out of business), until finding a sweet shop in Lucca two days before we left. Relief! I told my husband about your post and he nodded, apparently glad to know it's not just me :-) Always enjoy your blog -- this is my first comment.

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